Google SEO—Sundar Pichai—revealed, during its third-quarter earnings call, that “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI,” although human developers are still required to review and approve the code.
The move towards integrating more and more AI into internal coding processes is designed to help Google developers work faster and focus on the bigger, ‘high-hanging fruit projects’ and complex tasks, leaving AI to pick up the low-skill, everyday coding work.
Pichai sees it as a bigger strategic move to streamline operations, improve efficiency, accelerate innovation, and maximize returns across its divisions, which is something that’s clearly paying off: Google reported $88.8B in revenue in Q3, with Google Search (including AI Overviews) making $76.5 (13% up YoY) and Google Cloud (which provides AI infrastructure to companies) making $11.4 (35% up YoY).
With the heavy integration of AI into internal processes, plenty of AI projects in the pipeline, a financial commitment to Anthropic and OpenAI, $12B allocated to AI data centers, and plans to spend over $100B “over time” on AI technology, Google is definitely pushing the AI agenda, and in doing so, is providing a precedent for other tech companies to follow..